I was asked recently if I could automate the creation of calendars in Adobe Illustrator. It turns out there are a couple script for accomplishing this in InDesign (best is from sselberg), but only pre-built templates for Illustrator. If you need a new year, you’d have to search for a new template, which is lame. New script to the rescue! Thanks go to Joyce for this suggestion.

Here is the English translation of the Russian site Sigurdur references: http://tinyurl.com/5pat6g. There are some original scripts there and links back to others by WR & etc.

The Calendar Premaker script has some nice features and thumbs up for a GUI graphical user interface. It does to holidays and coloring weekends. The styling is most like my mini page 12 up styling.

But the text is not very editable. If you want to customize the font size, spacing, etc. I think my script is better. But always good to have options (including better multi language support). Thanks for the information!

Got your script loaded and looked at the video. Does this only work in MAC? Do you need a Black background. No matter what I do nothing pastes into the field. Can you assist with more instructions please?

I assume you are on Windows? What version of Illustrator are you using? I develop on a Mac but all my scripts usually working fine cross platform. If there is an issue I’ll look into fixing it.

Here are my steps for running the script:

1. Have an Illustrator document open or create a new document
2. Create or have a text frame in the document
3. Select the text frame so it is active as an object. Not so you are entering text in it but so it’s outlines are highlighted and if you use the curser keys on your keyboard the text frame (area text) moves around.
4. Run the script.
5. After the script runs (you press Okay button in the dialog) then the text should populate into the selected text frame.

Ree- Please note the script only works in CS3 or CS4. Earlier versions of Illustrator cannot read the binary version of the script. Sorry! You can get a trial version of this software here: http://www.adobe.com/downloads/

[...] (Mac) and Visual Basic (PC). A listing of all my scripts is here, including my recent script for creating calendars. Adobe does a good job of getting you started with several introductory and intermediate manuals. [...]

Can’t seem to use this. Not sure what I’m missing. Got the following error:
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Error 21: undefined is not an object.
Line 3493
- > dialogBox =
app.dialogs.add({name:setting.title,canCancel:true});
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Using a Mac and CS4.